The American dilemma

There are many commentators who describe the Middle East as a basket case. The different factions at each other's throat are often tribal who's animosity stretches back over generations. Tough, often despotic rulers, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein to name but two, kept them in their place by cruelly suppressing their freedom. The argument for the West to send troops was the "oppression suffered by the people in each country" and the need for regime change. It was spiced up by the suggestion that there were weapons of mass destruction, weapons which were never found and have been pretty much agreed, were the shady work of the Bush/Blair administration prodded by Donald Rumsfeld and his oil interests.

The question of the American financial colonisation of the world with is policy of intervention and destabilisation has to be faced. It's difficult to see our cousins from across the pond in anything other than a collaborative light. They speak like us, many of their institutions were borrowed from us and then developed by them. The gloss of open elections and their support for a legal underpinning of society has much of our own system of values in it but it is never the less substantially different from anything seen in Europe.
Under laying this underpinning the American democratic system is the enormous part played my money. Not only in the election process but in the promotion of virtually every piece of Congressional legislation. Also the support for repressive governments right across the world where a financial advantage can be obtained, is well documented.
How much of the current mess in the world comes from their meddling ?
Should "local" balance of power issues be allowed to be fought out, irrespective of the outcome, on the time old premise that the strong will always come out on top.
Should their financial colonisation project be supported or should we admit that the Washington Consensus's is as foreign to us as is the Kremlins method of dealing with their troublesome opposition. Perhaps we should be more like the French renowned for their political independence irrespective of the cost.